I am going wrap things up by showing you what might be the wackiest trick in all of Illustrator.…Essentially, by pressing a key you can repeat an object as you draw it.…And you may find it useful and maybe not.…Let me show you how it works? And I'm going to go ahead and zoom out so that we have plenty of room to work.…And I'm going to switch to the Line tool--now this trick works with any of the Line or Shape tools.…We'll start with Line tool.…And I'm also going to change the fill and stroke attributes.…So I will click on the Strokes swatch up here on the Control panel and change it to White.…

And then I'll click on the Fill swatch, and I'll change it to None so that we're just…drawing a bunch of white lines.…So now if I were to draw from the center of the star outwards, so you can see then I create a line.…And of course as I drag back and forth, I am changing the angle and the length of line,…but if I press and hold the tilde key once again on American keyboard that's the key…below the Escape key, above the Tab key in the upper left corner.…

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6/1/2012

This course is the first in a four-part series by industry-pro Deke McClelland on creating elegant, optimized graphics with the tools in Adobe Illustrator CS6.

This installment covers subjects such as working with shapes and closed paths, including painting, grouping, and coloring, and placing and adjusting type. Deke shows you how to select fonts, create hanging indents, and tweak the kerning and leading of your text. Additional chapters cover drawing and editing paths (and their points) and moving and transforming objects in your artwork.

Topics include:

Rotating and duplicating objects

Grouping and stacking

Erasing and painting selected paths

Using the Shape Builder tool

Reflecting across an angled axis

Simulating beveled edges

Creating a network of interlocking paths

Placing and flowing text

Creating page margins

Adjusting type size

Creating and applying paragraph styles

Using the Glyphs panel

Inserting and removing anchor points

Skill Level Beginner

9h 19m

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Q: I'm following along with Chapter 5 movie, "Creating compound paths." Why can't I get the second shape to compound properly? The Object menu doesn't seem to work.

A: This problem is due to a bug in Illustrator that has developed since this movie was recorded. To work around it, click off the Object menu (or press the Escape key); take another action, such as opening and closing the drawing layer; and revisit the Object menu.